Candle pointer



Apr. 10, 1923.

A. s. HOPE CANDLE POINTER Filed Apr. 12, 1922 Patented Apr. 10, 1923.

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ALFRED s. Hornor CHICAGO, ILLINO S."

CANDLE POINTER.

Application filed April 12, 1922. Serial No. 552,058.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED S. Horn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of v the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Candle Pointer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a art of this specification.

y invention is intended to be used for repointing candles, after they have burned for a short time and put out, to improve their appearance while waiting for further use.

It is well known that with the ordinary user of the better grades of candles,personal pride requires replacing the candles with new ones after only slight use because of the unsightly appearance of the residual stump. By repointing the old candle this expense is avoided without calling attention to the economy thus practiced, and the user obtains a candle that looks exactly like new without the expense of purchasing a new one. Such a device is of great practical benefit to large users of candles, such as churches, where candles have in the past been an important item of expense.

An important object of this invention is to form the cutting blade in a compound curve that will not only duplicate the form com:

' monly used for the tips of moulded candles and so pass close inspection without detection; but will also give a far better cutting action on the friable wax. At normaltemperatures wax is rather brittle and at the narrow tip it tends to chip off in relatively large pieces, which of course spoils the appearance of the candle tip. My double curved blade gives a form wherein the major part of the cut is taken at the entering curved edge of the knife and thus leaves only a slight shaving or scraping action for the balance of the knife blade so that the more fragile tip is subject to much less cutting strain.

It is also an important object of this invention to provide a candle pointer which may be economically manufactured and con veniently used.

Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the specification and the accompanying drawings. The invention.j(in a preferred form)" is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter more fully described. I On the drawings: 1 Figure I is an elevation of the device of my invention in place ready to cuta candle stump f Figure 2 is a similar View after the op. eration of repointing the candle is completed. i

Figure 3 is an elevation showing a view of Figure 2 when turned 90; to the'left.v

Figure 4: is an enlargedsection along the line 1-4 of Figure 2. v Figure 5 is an enlarged section along the line 55 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is an enlargedsection along the line 6-6 ofiFigure 2.

Figure 7, is an enlarged section along the line 77 of Figure 2.

Figure 8 is an enlarged view of the ting blade.

. As shown on the drawings:

The numeral 1 refers to a candle, with a central wick 2. The body of my device has an extension at the-top serving as a handle 3 for turning the body upon the candle. The body consists of a tubular section 5 and a hollow cone 4 which is cut away through approximately 90 of its circumference to allow mounting a cutting knife 6 on one edge of the cutaway portionand'to give an exit for the material cut from the candle. The knife is so shaped as to produce a double curved candle tip practically identical with that commonly used on moulded candles, not only for sake of similarity but because this shape is the cuteasiest to form without breaking'the fragile v wax tip of the candle. The knife is mounted in the cone so that it will have ample clearance from the inner surface of the cone except at the point 7 of the knife, which is-without clearance so as to form a stop to prevent further cutting of the candle when the desired shape has been secured. A small hole goes through the point of the cone to provide space for the candle wick, and the point 7 of the knife is so arranged with respect to this hole as to remove surplus wax from the wickitself to allow easier lighting of the candle. The point 7 .is arranged in substantial alignthe candle into the desired shape.

ment with the axis of the body and the lower or major cutting surface 8 diverges fro-m'th-is axis at a small angle. The blade is further given an increasing rake from the point 7 downwards, as illustrated in the sections shown in Figures 5 to 7.

The operation of my device consists-simply in placing the body over the end of the candle to be pointed and rotating either the body or the candle to cause the knife to trim T he form of the cutter is such that a large proportion of the cutting is done near thecircumference of the candle \"vlnere it is or course the strongest, while the relatively weak tip of the candle isonly subject to a very? light shavingor scraping operation that has little tendency to break the brittle material composing the candle and so tends tO PI'OClHCG a perfect result. I

1' am aware that numerous details otcon-' not purpose limiting the patent granted j otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

In a candle pointer, thecombination oi a tubular body, an apertured hollow cone integraltherewith, a cutter blade shaped to produce a compound curved candle tip and fitted to the hollow cone member in such a way that the axis of the cutter diverges from the axis of the cone and has an increasing angle of rake from the point of the cone to the junction with the tubular body portion.

2. In a candle pointer the combination of a tubular body, an apertured hollow cone integral therewith, a cutter blade shapedto produce a compound curved candle tip and; titted to the hollow cone member in such a way that the axis oi the cutter diverges from the axis of the cone and has an increasing angle of rah-e from the point of the cone to the junction with the tubular body portion, and means in said hollow cone for preventing iurther cutting by the blade when the desired candle point is obtained. In testimony whereof l have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

ALFRED S. HOPE.

Witnesses 1 CHARLES W. HI LS, Jn, JAMES M. OBRIEN; 

